>Naomi, "got" isn't a great word for technical writing.
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>For past tense, "you still should have received results" will be acceptable except to the most pedantic bore. Or how about a passive tense but more precise construct: "results still should have been displayed" or even "results still should have appeared".
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>For present tense, "you should receive results" or "results should be displayed" are both correct.
Close, but not exactly what I intended to say. I wanted to say that my suggestion should have brought (?) the correct results.
This is my current phrase (incorrect)
"What was the query you tried? I see that I forgot to group by Serial, but you still should have get results for all serials in your table, since I used left join from Data to something. I think you changed my query a bit.", I'm going to sleep and hopefully you can help me to re-write it in a proper English.
Thanks again.
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